aceThe AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind
There’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in artificial intelligence, or get trapped in the “permanent underclass”, a phrase describing the fate of those who won’t have upward mobility in the age of AI. The phrase usually describes a future in which AI automates human jobs. But for women in tech, it’s starting to look like the present. “A lot of people say: ‘Oh, AI is lowering barriers, it’s equalizing the playing field for women,’” said Urvashi…
Women hold a small share of new AI hires and are concentrated in lower-paid AI roles, while also being more exposed to AI disruption in jobs like customer service.
The article rests largely on one LinkedIn report and the testimony of advocates and individual women, and warnings about a historic pay gap are projections rather than measured results.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-07
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